Thanks for the BS, Josh. I was on the original cypherpunks list back in the day and have been on email lists since 1989 or so. Maybe I can explain to you how the Internet works.

That said, spam is spam and Bell’s personal problems are not something I give a shit about. I’m obviously not the only one. I know several people who have left this list recently due to the almost complete lack of signal to noise. Perhaps you embrace this though.

On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Joshua Case <jwcase@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Al, 

You’ve got to have a pretty thick skin to be on a mailing list - sometimes people post several messages in a row that may be over your head,  in regards to people or events you have  no knowledge of, or just plain boring. In these cases it is best to just buddha-up - find your delete key and go with the flow. If you really can’t see why the members of this particular list might be interested this particular “celebrity’s” correspondence in this matter — if you truly have “no idea what it is about” — then perhaps you should save your comments until you do have some inkling of what’s going around you. Then you won’t appear petulant or uninformed when you wish to participate rationally at a later time. 

Good luck!